Thomas Bathe Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia

Prepress Technician, (1994-2013)• Assisted in the creation and implementation of a new digital print department.• Performed digital stripping of complex impositions for commercial accounts• Retrained offset strippers to become prepress technicians• Troubleshot and evaluated the performance of direct-to-plate hardware such as rips, plotters and proofers• Solved complex file issues and various problems with color and print quality• Maintained daily print job schedules in order to meet critical deadlines• Created page layouts, custom dielines, color correct 4/c and retouched digital imagesOffset Stripper, (1986-1994)• Offset 4 color table stripper and platemaker• Cemco mask cutting technician, Dupont Crossfeild technician

Greater Philadelphia Area

Contracted to train displaced traditional table strippers, camera operators anddplate makers in the use of desktop computer systems, utilizing the “QUIPS” (Quark, Illustrator and PhotoShop)• Instructor of a 13-week Quark, Illustrator and PhotoShop course and a 16 week advanced Photoshop course, which enabled the trainees to be certified as entry level desktop operators• Created and developed training programs for Kodak Preps and Rampage Systems

Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Pitstop And Quark Express

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